WCP6398

Letter (WCP6398.7396)

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GEORGE PHILIP & SON,

GEOGRAPHICAL & EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS & PRINTERS

98 VICTORIA ROAD

LONDON N.W.10

EST[ABLISHE]D. 1834

CITY OFFICES: 32 FLEET STREET, E.C.4

32, Fleet Street,

London,

E.C.4.

7th October, 1949.

ED/BL

W. G. Wallace2 Esq[uire].,

61 East Avenue,

Bournemouth.

Dear Sir,

Anthology3 — Mrs. Anderson4.

We are much obliged by your letter of the 6th, regarding the extracts which we wish to include in this anthology, from "The Malay Archipelago"5. We note that you would be prepared to grant us permission to use this material, on payment of a fee of one guinea, and we will get into touch with you again nearer the date of publication.

Yours faithfully, | GEORGE PHILIP & SON LIMITED6.

[Initials illeg.] Lewis [signature]

Editorial Department.

1
The letter is typewritten. The page is numbered [WP16/1/55] in pencil in the top RH corner.
2
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
3
Anderson, M. S. (Ed.) (1954) Splendour of Earth. An anthology of travel London, George Philip & Son.
4
Anderson, Margaret Swainson (née Willis) (Mrs F. C. K. Anderson) (1902-1952) Lecturer in Geography at Cambridge University. She married Frank C. K. Anderson in Barbados in 1933. At the time of her death her latest book, an anthology of travel, was in galley proof; it was published with the title 'Splendour of Earth' by George Philip and Son Ltd in 1954, including her own introduction dating from circa June 1952.
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Wallace, A. R. (1869) The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel with Studies of Man and Nature. 9th Edition. London, Macmillan & Co.
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British publishing house based in London founded in 1834, one of the oldest in the UK. The company specializes in maps and atlases.

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Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2018-08-15]

Please cite as “WCP6398,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6398